>>102224768>Slayers is the only example from the decade>no other series existed>Anime strictly adheers to a single artstyle per decade regardless of the source martial, character designer, director or studio.

Outlaw Star, Tenchi, G Gundam, Evangelion, Rayearth, Trigun, Berserk. 90s, cel-shaded, art is the best, followed by 80s art, with art from 2005 onward trailing way, way behind the two eras. Case in point; LOTGH's remake in comparison to the original. Too much bright and colorful digital animation, paired with too many giant, saucer eyed, copy and pasted moeblobs. I honestly think that most people who think otherwise are to young to remember anything other than digital.

Only some were sort of bad. It was a different decade of animation of the 80's, which to me, they were trying to add a bit of western look to it (Look at early episodes of Urusei Yatsura and Lupin). I think by the end of the 80's the signature 'Japan animation' style was starting and it took the decade to come together.

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Some early 2000s anime were pretty bad for their time like Transformers Armada, which had animation on par with the likes of Mars of Destruction and Musashi Gundoh, no hyperbole. It's sad that the animators put more effort into the OP and the stock transformation/powerlinking footage than the episodes themselves, although to be fair it's not uncommon.